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Legends of Runeterra: Husk as a Piltover/Zaun unit card?

Chembaron Yamada·1/27/2020, 10:40:44 PM·6 votes·6,954 views

Hello summoners,

want to talk about a topic I am still really butthurt about: the cancellation of Husk as a League of Legends champion. For everyone not knowing what I am talking about, here you go: https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/012/624/100/large/michael-maurino-husk-1.jpg?1535689110

Husk has been an early iteration for a new champion from Zaun, using a chemtech jetpack and rocking insectoid aesthetics. Her background story has been that she used to be Caitlyn's partner, but one day Caitlyn betrayed and shot her, leaving her paralysed. Husk then became the leader of a group of Zaunite mercenaries, called "H.I.V.E.".

This concept has been so detailed, it really hurt when I found out about it and that they cancelled her. It probably won't ever happen, but with Legends of Runeterra, I thought this would be another great opportunity to revive her. We will never get her as a champion in League of Legends, but if she could get added as a unit card in Legends of Runeterra, this would be amazing....

Feel free to discuss this suggestion or suggest other cancelled concepts which you would like to see added to LoR.

8 Comments

Mogarl1/28/2020, 8:23:02 AM3 votes

Idk, while she does look pretty cool her aesthetic is almost too refined for Zaun. It's not that it couldn't be made to fit, but it would be a fairly new look. As far as her bio goes though I think that it's better that it never became a canon thing. Caitlyn having a previous partner from Zaun that she betrayed would have detracted both from Vi and from herself. Vi because it would have taken a significant piece of her originality. Caitlyn because she already has enough story tie ins that more would start to devalue the rest.

GreenLore1/28/2020, 12:00:07 AM2 votes

While that would be cool it wouldn't surprise me if they want to reuse some of the concept for a future champ.

I'm not even sure if Kai'sa really fills the fantasy of a jetpack user, since she only really uses the symbiotes boost for 2 skills that are more like dashes and not even actual flight.

CaptainAntiHeroz2/1/2020, 3:39:27 AM1 votes

Husk vs Camille o-o thats one that I'd love to see

on another note I feel like eventually they'll have to split up Zaun and Piltover but yeah it'd be cool to see

6FlagsFunnelCake2/10/2020, 8:47:40 AM1 votes

That would be very intersting, if they don't happen to end up incorporating H.I.V.E into a real champion, I'd love to see a group of Zaunite cards that are H.I.V.E mercenaries, maybe to act as a more direct rival to Caitlyn like how Scarmother Vrynna is a new rival to Ashe.